Yes, I think it is. You probably know that you can set KNFB so that, I
think like the Pearl camera, it takes a pic of two facing pages of a book,
detects when you've turned to the next set and snaps that.
Very fast too, and you can upload stuff to Dropbox.
You can also get a free trial; think it may be 25 documents, but not sure
what counts as a document.
Richard
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I must admit I had not considered using my phone for scanning whole books,
but only the occasional letter/document on the fly and identifying
addresses on envelopes etc.
Is the experience now that using
KNFB on a phone is robust enough to efficiently to safely scan large
amounts?
I hate it if, for example, you spend time scanning a hundered pages only to
find the whole process falls over and you have lost all that you have
scanned. . If the phone route is genuinely robust for this sort of thing I
would certainly pursue it but would be interested if people have actually
been doing this in reality rather than as a theoretical possibility.
David Griffith
On 11/02/2016 09:00, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi,and PC.
Yes, KNFB with the Giraffe Reader Stand, which we sell, would work.
All the best
Steve
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David, Presumably you have already discounted KNFB reader on a
smartphone for some reason?
I find that the latest version works really well with a stand.
Richard
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Subject: [access-uk] Camera Scanner
I had for some time considered that the Docuscan/Hovercam combination
would be the most cost effective replacement especially as I use both Mac
software.
However the Docuscan Hovercam bundle appears to have disappeared. This
makes me suspect that it did not actually work that well. In fact the
options for visually impaired people appears to have contracted since
I last looked at it. The camera scanning solutions at Computer Room,
Humanware Sight and Sound or RNIB websites are either non-existent or
extremely limited. For example Sight and Sound appear only now to
sell the Pearl open Book system for over £1,000 and a Freedom
Scientific version of EyePal at £1,700.
Both these systems appear to lock the camera into proprietary software
solutions as far as I am aware.
I can buy a hovercam "Visualiser" from Amazon for about £400 but the
reviews are pretty dreadful and there does not seem any reassurance
that the Camera will work well with For example Kurzweil, Abby
Finereader etc. I would be happy to buy Docuscan as well if it was
guaranteed to work well and reliably with the camera.
I am keen not to repeat the mistake of the Eyepal where basically a
high quality camera was let down by buggy unreliable and frustrating
What camera based document OCR scanning setups are people using
effectively now?
David Griffith
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